Why is flu so bad this year? Highly mutated variant offers answers
A person is vaccinated against influenza, which is causing high numbers of illnesses and hospitalizations in the United…
Structural insights into the assembly and evolution of a complex bacterial flagellar motor
Chen, S. et al. Structural diversity of bacterial flagellar motors. EMBO J. 30, 2972–2981 (2011). Article PubMed PubMed…
Fungal commensal promotes intestinal repair via its secreted peptide in mice
Barker, N. Adult intestinal stem cells: critical drivers of epithelial homeostasis and regeneration. Nat. Rev. Mol. Cell Biol.…
Large-scale testing of antimicrobial lethality at single-cell resolution predicts mycobacterial infection outcomes
Sample collection We used the Mycobacterium abscessus laboratory strain ATCC-19977, the avirulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Ra and the…
Bangladesh Respiratory Illness, Encephalitis Linked to Bats
Unexplained respiratory and neurological illnesses in Bangladesh have been identified as Pteropine orthoreoviruses (PRVs)—a group of newly emergent bat-borne…
Global Virus Network outlines priorities as Marburg virus emerges in Ethiopia
The Global Virus Network (GVN), a coalition of leading human and animal virologists in more than 40 countries…
A novel and superior diagnostic test for feline leukemia virus: enhanced precision in rapid detecting viral antigen in blood, plasma and serum | Virology Journal
Jarrett WFH, Crawford EM, Martin WB, Davie F. A virus-like particle associated with leukemia (lymphosarcoma). Nature. 1964;202(4932):567–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/202567A0.…
Pelodera: cosmopolitan phoretic saprotrophs and neglected models for origins of nematode parasitism | Parasites & Vectors
Bartlow AW, Agosta SJ. Phoresy in animals: review and synthesis of a common but understudied mode of dispersal.…
Attrition rate of antiretroviral therapy and its influencing factors among Chinese people living with HIV/AIDS: a meta-analysis and system review | AIDS Research and Therapy
Literature screening process A total of 409 articles were initially retrieved. After sequential screening, 19 studies were finally…
Microbial and seminal traces of sexual intercourse and forensic implications | Microbiome
Isala cohort cross-sectional study The Isala citizen-science project (https://isala.be/en/) was approved by the Ethical Committee of the Antwerp…
A unified catalog of 14,062 microbial species reference genomes provides new insight into the gut microbiota in high-altitude mammals | Microbiome
Zhang Z, Xu D, Wang L, Hao J, Wang J, Zhou X, et al. Convergent evolution of rumen…
A case of a misleading conclusion: a critical reassessment of the methodological and interpretive flaws of a recent meta-analysis of the vector role of cat fleas in feline hemotropic Mycoplasma species transmission | Parasites & Vectors
Reanalysis of the Thai samples Stored individual flea samples that previously tested positive by Jensen primer-based PCR without…